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Battle Ballgown
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A dress that is lightly to heavily armored, and thus would fit in both a social gala and an epic melee. The form of the dress can range from a frilly gown and petticoats also accessorized with armor and/or weapons, to basically a suit of armor with a skirt. The point of this dress is a combination of Rule of Glamorous and Rule of Cool, as such an outfit will almost always be Impossibly Cool Clothes. In fact, skirts of armor such as mail or segmented plate were historically used (and mostly for men at that) as it was an easier way to protect the hips, buttocks, groin, and upper legs without restricting one's range of movement. The main differences from the examples in this article are that undivided skirts didn't often extend past the knees — at a certain point you'd need splits in front and back in order to mount a horse — and they would have avoided adding too much heavy fabric or low hems that could snag on the ground or trip up the feet. Naturally the ladies wearing these kinds of dresses are almost always Action Girls, particularly Ladies Of War, Pretty Princess Powerhouses, or other tropes related to Silk Hiding Steel (although this trope makes the "hiding" moot). If any other girl ends up wearing this, expect her to fall over almost immediately, if she can even move. A Sub-Trope of Pimped-Out Dress and Costume Porn. A Sister Trope to Lady Legionnaire Wear, Kicking Ass in All Her Finery. Compare Stylish Protection Gear, Scary Impractical Armor, or Powered Armor. Contrast Chainmail Bikini, Stripperiffic. Remember that this is an armored dress, not simply a fancy dress worn in battle; that's Kicking Ass in All Her Finery. |
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Genshin Impact: Noelle's outfit is a modest maid outfit with an armored breastplate, greaves, gauntlets, and one pauldron. The end result looks like a ballgown, and she is one of the few playable characters who actually wears some kind of armor. | |
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Heralds of Valdemar: In Queen's Own, Talia wears a formal outfit to Elspeth's investiture as Heir that looks elegant, but has been subtly modified so that she could fight in it, and has several concealed weapons. | |
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Tactics Ogre, at least in the 2011 re-imagining of Let Us Cling Together, features this geddup◊ for its female knights. | |
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Samurai Shodown's Charlotte goes tank on top, skirt on bottom. | |
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Most of the armor sets for the female avatars in the Monster Hunter games are either this or Stripperiffic(a few have managed to be both). One of the most famous examples is the Rathian (Blademaster) set. | |
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The film version of Prince Caspian has Susan actively participating in more battles than the book, wearing mail, leather, and a long skirt, and making her a fully-fledged Lady of War. | |
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In the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson, the main character, Vin, is fitted for ball gowns that are designed to allow for a range of motion, silent movement, and with hidden pockets. She still prefers not to have to fight in them, since they tend to wind up destroyed if she does, but being Crazy-Prepared she's just more comfortable if she has the option open. | |
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Honor Harrington's tunics and tabards are made of a material with (limited) anti-ballistic properties. Mostly because Nimitz likes to ride on her shoulder and his claws would shred any lesser material. It has saved her life on one occasion, and her bodyguard's comfort in knowing she wears them is repeatedly mentioned. | |
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In an episode of The Simpsons, Groundskeeper Willie explains that traditional Scots garb in battle was not the iconic tartan kilt, but rather full-length ballgowns covered with sequins.. | |
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Princess Zelda in Hyrule Warriors is an active playable character and as such an active combatant. As such, augments her usual elegant princess dress with plate gauntlets and greaves. See for yourself.◊ | |
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Log Horizon: Coppelia wears heavy plate armor that's specifically designed to look like a maid gown. | |
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In The Rise of Kyoshi, Kyoshi herself wears a long elegant dress with mail lining the inside. | |
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Special mention goes to Dark Souls. While there are "gown"-looking armor in the game, there's usually no reason to equip it except for the (now-patched and nerfed) Antiquated Skirt, which has disproportionately high defense compared to the rest of the set. Coupled with real armor for the upper body and a female character, and you have this trope. | |
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Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City: The Hoplite class, pictured above, wears dresses that are loaded with armor plating. Comparably, the Princess class has a lighter armor dress, with tiaras, frills, and fur trim paired with metal boots, gauntlets, and one dress with a breastplate. | |
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Gwendolyn, from Odin Sphere. Her supposed battle dress is fabulous, having loads of Fluffy Fashion Feathers and ruffles. | |
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Some of the Barrier Jackets (customizable magical armor suits) worn by female mages from the Lyrical Nanoha series. Take Signum,◊ for example. | |
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Fire Emblem has some rather recent examples: Fire Emblem: Awakening introduced the War Cleric class, a female-only class that promotes from the standard Cleric and Troubadour classes. The outfit War Clerics◊ wear consists of a normal dress covered with leather armor, gauntlets, a helmet, and a metal farthingale-like structure around the skirt. The Shrine Maidens and Priestesses from Fire Emblem Fates wear◊ outfits◊ that look like a cross between this trope and traditional miko robes. It's further empathized with Princess◊ Sakura's◊ unique models. In Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, the women in the Saint class wear long and puffy dresses◊ plus breastplates to battle. Their Over Class/Promotion, the Exemplar, exaggerate the trope by adding a Badass Cape and a golden shield. In Fire Emblem Engage, Princess Céline wears an actual ballgown when going into battle, although one with an open front for ease of movement. Marni, and, by extension, her Mirror Universe counterpart, Madeline, take this to a humorous extent, going to war in what appear to be a lolita-style dresses covered in frills and ribbons, despite belonging to the heavily armored General class... until a closer look reveals that most of the dresses and cute decorations are actually solid metal. Even their tower shields are shaped to look like they've got big bows (pink bows for Marni, blue bows for Madeline) on them. |
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Mabinogi features several sets of female armour that qualify as this, with skirts ranging from knee-length to full-length, like Leminia's Holy Moon Armor for female characters. It's pretty much the male version with a skirt and is the most expensive armor buyable from NPCs. | |
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In the Japan-exclusive game Sigma Harmonics, one of Neon's possessions has her wearing one of these. With multiple swords built into the dress. | |
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The Taken Shape is the best armor available in Dragon Age: Inquisition, although it's only found in the Trespasser DLC. It's probably not intended to be this since it can be worn by literally any character regardless of gender or race, but the nature of the design gives it a distinctly dress-like appearance. | |
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has a variant of this trope. Many NPCs wear unarmored pants in their leg armor slot, even if their other slots are occupied by actual armored pieces of equipment. On female characters, those pants are rendered as a long skirt, making them look exactly like women wearing an armor including a gown. | |
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Some of Refia's outfits in Final Fantasy III, like the Knight◊ and Dragoon,◊ have a short skirt attached to the armor, perhaps to set her apart from her male companions. | |
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World of Warcraft: a great number of (plate) Paladin and (mail) Shaman armor sets fit the bill, the Judgement Armor being one of the first and most well-known examples in the game. Since the end of Cataclysm, it's possible for players to give pieces of gear the appearance of said armor sets, via transmogrification. | |
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The White Queen: Margaret of Anjou wears a brown breastplate over her dress when leading an army to conquer England. | |
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Ironclad: When the enemy gets inside the castle, Lady Isabel changes into an elegant and surely custom-made dress incorporating armor, wearing it into battle without even tying back her long hair. It's not a practical design, there's no explanation of who made it for her, and such a garment never existed; it's just pure Rule of Glamorous. | |
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Sengoku Rance has Uesugi Kenshin, who wore her kacchu styled Japanese armor over her hakama/gii and a hat. | |
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Appears in Grand Knights History. | |
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Xena: Warrior Princess: Xena's wedding dress in "Soul Possession" was both stylish, practical and pretty damn cool.◊ | |
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Ayakashi Triangle: Matoi's exorcist ninja suit is an elaborate variation of the style of mail bodysuit Matsuri wears. It has an open back, a midsection with only "dress" flaps covering the underlayer, tight leggings, Combat Stilettos, High-Class Gloves, a sash attached to both gloves, and a fur neck wrap. | |
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Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia gives the heroine Shanoa the option of wearing either heavy armor or dresses into battle. The armor usually has the higher defense, but the dresses tend to increase other stats in addition to defense. Her standard outfit is a high-slit Sexy Backless Outfit, a sturdy breastplate, and plated thigh-high boots. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas DLC 'Dead Money' introduces Vera's dress. An armour rating of 2 is nothing to boast about when you have access to 18 to 25 later on, but it's still an armoured Little Black Dress. With the right build (and accessories), you can have a very satisfying time assaulting Caesar's Legion wearing this thing. | |
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Dark Souls II: Alva's Set plays this straight to a tee, it's a knight armor with a red skirt. Unlike most examples, not only it can be worn by both gender, Alva, the owner of this armor was male. The Throne Watcher, one of the final bosses of the vanilla game, has a long, white armored dress/overcoat that fits even better. Her set can be acquired and for fashion purposes, it goes with almost anything. |
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In Soul Eater, Maka and the rest of the cast initially change out of their formal gear during a Ballroom Blitz. However later, Maka converts the Black Blood into armour in the shape of a ballgown. | |
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Fate/Extra Last Encore, and by extension Fate/EXTRA which it is based on, features Nero Claudius Caesar, 5th Emperor of Rome, who also wears a ballgown as her armor complete with Romanesque golden grieves and Epaullettes to signify her devotion to the arts as much as war. | |
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Exalted has the artifact silken armor. It's ordinary clothing made out of a magical silk that offers the protection of light armor, allowing for this look. | |
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Downplayed with Noelle's Valkyrie Armor in Black Clover. Its literal romanization from Japanese is "Valkyrie Dress", and the skirt and wing-like ornaments add to the armor's feminine aesthetic without making it a full-on armored dress. | |
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Fate Series includes several examples All the anime adaptations of the visual novel Fate/stay night feature Artoria's armor, from Fate/Stay Night and Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works], to Artoria's Face–Heel Turn in Fate Stay Night Heavens Feel. Fate/Apocrypha features Artoria's illegitimate heir and technical clone, Mordred. She combines this trope with Tin Tyrant by having her armor panels form the shape of a ball gown on their own with no additional fabric. It also features Frankenstein, who plays with this by having an actual ballgown be her battle armor, complete with armored Combat Stilettos, in her role as a Berserker. Fate/Extra Last Encore, and by extension Fate/EXTRA which it is based on, features Nero Claudius Caesar, 5th Emperor of Rome, who also wears a ballgown as her armor complete with Romanesque golden grieves and Epaullettes to signify her devotion to the arts as much as war. |
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The Shrine Maidens and Priestesses from Fire Emblem Fates wear◊ outfits◊ that look like a cross between this trope and traditional miko robes. It's further empathized with Princess◊ Sakura's◊ unique models. | |
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In Dungeons & Dragons 3.5, the "glamered" enchantment allows armor to appear as normal clothing, which can be used to achieve this effect. | |
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Fallout 4 allows ballistic weave to be applied to some clothing including various sequined dresses. The weave makes the dress much more effective than most of the armor in the game and puts the wearer into high heels in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. | |
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In the Walden Media film version of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the White Witch wears a breastplate and a mail dress to battle, along with Aslan's shorn mane. The film version of Prince Caspian has Susan actively participating in more battles than the book, wearing mail, leather, and a long skirt, and making her a fully-fledged Lady of War. |
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The Kyoshi Warriors' uniforms from Avatar: The Last Airbender. The outfits they were are meant to resemble the garb of Avatar Kyoshi. | |
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At the end of Under the Bridge, Widget Hackwrench wears a wedding dress made of Kevlar. The fact that Widget is a mouse makes it even more remarkable. | |
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Lenneth, Hrist, and Silmeria from the Valkyrie Profile series all have outfits that fit this trope. | |
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Downplayed in Darken, where Duchess Jill d'Avron patronizes Miss Fifi's Boutique and Armory for Simple, yet Opulent dresses with plenty of discreet reinforcements. | |
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In The Wheel of Time, Nynaeve, in a moment of insecurity in Tel'aran'rhiod (a place where clothing can change at a whim), wears an impossible dress made of armor plating. | |
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In Fire Emblem Engage, Princess Céline wears an actual ballgown when going into battle, although one with an open front for ease of movement. Marni, and, by extension, her Mirror Universe counterpart, Madeline, take this to a humorous extent, going to war in what appear to be a lolita-style dresses covered in frills and ribbons, despite belonging to the heavily armored General class... until a closer look reveals that most of the dresses and cute decorations are actually solid metal. Even their tower shields are shaped to look like they've got big bows (pink bows for Marni, blue bows for Madeline) on them. | |
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Fate/Apocrypha features Artoria's illegitimate heir and technical clone, Mordred. She combines this trope with Tin Tyrant by having her armor panels form the shape of a ball gown on their own with no additional fabric. It also features Frankenstein, who plays with this by having an actual ballgown be her battle armor, complete with armored Combat Stilettos, in her role as a Berserker. | |
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In "The Sleeping Beauty" of the Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms series, the princess wears dresses with plated corsets, leather collars, and special pockets for weapons. | |
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In Unhallowed Metropolis Mourners wear mourning garments that have been styled to include battle corsets (armored), and pocket-slits in the skirt part for drawing their blades. | |
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All 6 contestants in the Princess Waltz, whose dresses (being comprised of magic and being of varying designs) are their armor. Particular note goes to Angela, who flawlessly accents her dress with a breastplate. | |
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In the art for the Everquest pen & paper RPG book, the studded leather armor is drawn like an armored dress. | |
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Fate/Grand Order has too many examples to list, from those appearing in other works like Mordred and Artoria, to newcomers like Tomoe Gozen. | |
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Touhou Project has Yukari Yakumo. While her battle dress looks normal, Hong Meiling's victory quote against her implies that Yukari has some sort of armor underneath her gown, saying "I felt some odd resistance. What are you wearing underneath your clothes?" Being both a supernatural being and a Reality Warper, it could very well be that Yukari's skin and/or bones are incredibly tough, so much so that it feels as hard as armor. | |
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Chris Lightfellow of Suikoden III wears armor with a skirt. | |
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Game of Thrones: Cersei has a gown with a plate of metal in it as armor, which she sports in the last half of "Blackwater", although it's abundantly clear that it's all just for show. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, characters can reproduce this effect by wearing their armor with a robe or skirt, which will hang out over any trousers or leg armor. | |
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In Fairy Tail, some of Erza's numerous outfits are like this. | |
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Saber of Fate/stay night has a regular Pimped-Out Dress, but when she heads into battle she adds an armor overdress to it. | |
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Lady Aribeth de Tylmarande in Never Winter Nights wears an ankle-length long skirt over her armor, tucked under her breastplate to give this appearance.◊ However, this is only in character portraits, promotional art, and cutscenes, her in-game model lacks this long skirt and shows her armored boots and greaves which would otherwise be underneath it. | |
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Wild ARMs XF has Alexia,◊ who wears a Pimped-Out Dress accessorized with plate mail into battle. | |
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In Chrono Trigger, the Prism Dress◊ is the strongest armour, and can only be worn by women. | |
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Hägar the Horrible's teenage daughter Honi tends to wear dresses made from riveted plates. | |
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In Final Fantasy Tactics, some of the generic female job classes have this look, particularly heavily armored classes like the Knight◊ and Dragoon.◊ | |
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Homaged with Princess Eclair in La Pucelle. | |
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The Chronicles of Narnia mentions this trope in that Narnians don't really have a distinction between clothes you can look good in and clothes you can fight in. | |
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The Girl in the Steel Corset: The eponymous steel corset is to be worn under a fancy dress, and it doubles as light armor. | |
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Asuna shows up wearing this in several Negima! Magister Negi Magi artworks soon after getting her artifact. Before long, she was wearing them in the series proper. See also the Adriane Knights in the Magic World, and thus by extension Yue. |
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Phoebe from Battleborn a high-tech yet fashionable gown into battle that both aids her and makes her look fabulous. | |
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Fire Emblem: Awakening introduced the War Cleric class, a female-only class that promotes from the standard Cleric and Troubadour classes. The outfit War Clerics◊ wear consists of a normal dress covered with leather armor, gauntlets, a helmet, and a metal farthingale-like structure around the skirt. | |
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Bujinki Amaterasu, of the Bujin archetype in the Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG is wearing Bujingi Peacock as a skirt, and she has the highest attack out of the Bujin. | |
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The eponymous heroine of Princess Crown. | |
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